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  • About Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
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  • What is Pre-Raphaelite Art?
  • Unexpected Pre-Raphaelite Sightings
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  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti,  Edgar Allan Poe

    Aesthetic Vampirism

    January 25, 2017

    Literature is filled with fictional portraits. Visual art and the written word can intertwine in glorious ways. Dorian Gray’s mysteriously aging painting springs to mind and both the image of Lady Audley in Lady Audley’s Secret and descriptions of art in The Woman in White are excellent examples of Pre-Raphaelite principles used within a novel. One of my favorite examples…

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  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti,  Edgar Allan Poe,  wombats

    A #WombatFriday for Poe

    October 9, 2015

    Inspired by artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s passion for wombats, every Friday is Wombat Friday at Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. “The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!” ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti Edgar Allan Poe died October 7th in 1849, quite soon after the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed.  Poe was a huge inspiration for poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.…

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  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti,  Edgar Allan Poe

    Ulalume

    July 17, 2014

    As I mentioned in Rossetti and the art of death, Edgar Allan Poe was a great influence on DGR’s work. The Raven is a prime example of Poe’s poetry influencing Rossetti’s.  It was a catalyst for The Blessed Damozel, where Rossetti reversed the conditions of The Raven in order to tell the story from the deceased lover’s point of view. (See my…

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  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti,  Edgar Allan Poe,  Elizabeth Siddal

    Rossetti and the art of death

    July 16, 2014

    “It is a subject from an old story of mine — a woman dying while her lover is painting her portrait”  (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) This is a story of beauty, art, and death. The study for Bonifazio’s mistress captures a scene from Rossetti’s story St. Agnes of Intercession.  It was intended to be published in the fifth edition of the Pre-Raphaelite…

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  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti,  Edgar Allan Poe

    Dante Gabriel Rossetti illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Sleeper

    January 11, 2011

    “Poe is a key figure in the development of DGR’s literary style as well. The second-order romanticism developed in Poe’s imaginative writings, and explicated in essays like “The Poetic Principle” and “The Philosophy of Composition”, is recapitulated in DGR’s work, where the key is primarily Dantean rather than (as in Poe) Shelleyan/Byronic.”–RossettiArchive.com The book Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Treuherz, Prettejohn,…

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Stephanie Graham Piña is an independent scholar whose research focuses on Victorian Art, especially the Pre-Raphaelites. In 2004 she created LizzieSiddal.com, a resource for those interested in the life of Pre-Raphaelite model and painter Elizabeth Siddal. She established her website ‘The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood’ in 2007 to highlight the work of women artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Circle. Through her popular online publications, she has been a leading advocate of independent research and discourse on Victorian art.

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